Birds nests. Awesome

How is it that our street is covered in wheelie bins because of the wind but a last years pigeons nest is still very much intact in our little tree?
Awesome.

We’ve lost the robins nest we had, sadly.

On a vaguely related note I remember seeing this article last year and finding it interesting, I might even get round to buying a copy of the book at some point.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/26/nests-susan-ogilvy-illustrations-bird-interview

What never fails to surprise me essel is the amount of branches you see down with nests still firmly embedded in them.

Possibly (I am not an evolutionary scientist) because they work with nature and we often work around it?

Possibly (I am not an evolutionary scientist) because they work with nature and we often work around it?

May well be truth in that

If you’ve ever seen a wood pigeon nest it’s probably the reason that squabs fall out too early! Just a few twigs arranged in a very loose arrangement- an amazingly flimsy platform for such a large bird..

More likely it’s because it’s wheelie bin quite windy this weekend, and that means it’s a lot more aerie in the trees.

Because pigeon nests are held together by their very sticky glue-like shit.

https://preview.redd.it/7qnipo4uzoi71.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=873c2e5523fe66bfa000653968a988e0858a404d

Said the same thing this morning,tree at the bottom of the garden has a magpies nest in it. The tree is almost bending in 2 with the wind but the nest is still there intact. Incredible

I’m sorry but I find the lack of acknowledgement of the contribution of squirrels in this area deeply offensive. It would seem in your haste to pour praise on avian nests you have heinously and disrespectfully forgot about dray.

Squirrels address a bit of a grey area on here

Yep pigeons are more my type of bird when it comes to not really giving much of a **** about how to build a nest.

Initially looks ok-ish till you look at the building material…

pigeons are hard as nails.